Following the public outcry and wide condemnation of his recent indigenization policy, which led to the sack of non-natives in the state civil service, the Abia State Government has recalled non-natives from outside the South-east geo-political zone, to return to their duty posts. It also asked those corps members, employed for their exceptional performance after their […]
No fewer than 10 people were killed early yesterday, as dare-devil robbers raided three commercial banks in Sagamu, Ogun State. This came barely two weeks after a similar incident at the Permanent site of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye in Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state, leaving three persons dead among […]
A Police officer, and at least 19 other people have been killed and several others severely injured in the wake of violence which occurred at Barkin Ladi, the council headquarters of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. Two churches, an Islamic school, and over 20 other buildings were also torched. The officer, whose name […]
Aspokesman for Boko Haram claimed yesterday that the group has links with Al-Qaeda, while also threatening to kill a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Borno State as well as attack political party offices. “It is true we have links with Al-Qaeda,” the man identifying himself as Abul Qaqa told reporters in a phone conference […]
By Ijeoma Nwogwugwu, Email: ijeoma.nwogwugwu@thisdaylive.com Joseph Ajaero, the general secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees and one of three deputy presidents of the Nigeria Labour Congress, has been on at war with this administration for well over a year. On the face of it, much his angst with the federal government stems from […]
Wednesday’s sack of Mrs. Farida Waziri as the executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis-sion (EFCC) was set in motion by a car gift, THISDAY has learnt. Sources said the curiosity of President Goodluck Jonathan was “aroused” sometime last year when he learnt that Waziri had bought a car as gift for a […]
Justice Yetunde Idowu of the Ikeja High Court, Thursday, has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to pay Nigerian comedy actor, Babatunde Omidina, commonly called Baba Suwe, N25 million as compensation for unlawful detention and breach of right. Baba Suwe who was granted bail November 4, had gone to court to seek redress […]
Ilorin – An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded two secondary school students over an alleged attempt to rape a school girl. The accused, Afolabi Sanni, 19, and Qudus Alaya, 20, were arraigned on a five count charge of criminal conspiracy, assault, intimidation, theft and attempt to commit rape. The offences contravene sections 97, 265, […]
BY HENRY UMORU, INALEGWU SHAIBU Abuja – Senators have asked the Federal Government to decentralise the Nigeria Police to include community and state police. The senators expressed their views during the second reading of a bill for an Act to establish and regulate the Nigeria Police Service, which also proposes to remove the prosecuting powers […]
FOR Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), this is like second coming having served as Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the period former anti-corruption czar, Nuhu Ribadu was spirited away on course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, prior to the […]
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